Anschutz Medical Campus researchers discover new process to cultivate blood cells
Gates Center Jun 5, 2011Anschutz Medical Campus researchers discover new process to cultivate adult blood cells.
Researchers on the Anschutz Medical Campus have discovered a scientific process that could make blood drives a thing of the past.
Yosef Refaeli and Brian Turner, co-founders of Taiga Biotechnologies Inc., have developed a new method in which they use their proprietary blood stem-cell lines from cord blood to generate mature, adult red blood cells in the lab in 14 days
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The blood stem-cell lines are cultured in tissue-culture dishes with a special mixture that supports stem-cell growth and placed in an incubator that aims to mimic conditions in the human body. Typically, the mixture has salts and nutrients that enable cells to grow in a dish.
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